Mike Frank remarks: "the french student revolution has come to be seen, if not as the actual source of many new directions in contemporary thought, at least as a convenient marker of the intellectual revolution in which the althusserian, derridian, lacanian, foucaludian, barthesian, de manian post struturalist, deconstrnctionist, semiotic armies stormed the barricades of conventional thought if i'm not mistaken it was at just about the same time that johns hopkins sponsored a conference that marked the first significant appearance of many new french intellectuals on the american [academic] scene . . . so from this side of the atlantic that date serves as a useful watershed in intellectual and cultural history [but i speak here only from unreliable memory and welcome any relevant information that i've left out or gotten wrong]" May 1968--the joining together of students and workers in radical protest--and the results of the "uprising" prompted a lot of French intellectuals and artists to take stock of their efforts. From it emerged the radicalized efforts of directors like Godard and critics like the editors of CAHIERS DUE CINEMA and CINETHEQUE. (Some of the newer names in French criticism began appearing in America, but in most circles we were just catching up to structuralism, so post-structuralism took a little longer on the whole.) A lot of other results occured over time as well--there are good accounts in several film history texts and books like Roy Armes' history of French cinema. Some of the primary texts of the era can be found anthologized in different collections as well. But, of course, 1968 was a remarkable year around the world--mostly for the worse. Vietnam, the Cultural Revolution, the crushing of the Prague Spring, the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, etc., ad nauseum. It might be worth noting that some see a direct link between May 1968 in France and the protests over attempts to fire Henri Langlois as curator of the Cinematheque Francaise. Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN) ---- To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]